I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.

My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.

  • xquizitdecorum@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I read “The Year of Magical Thinking” and “Blue Nights” back-to-back, and there’s a shift in tone from bewilderment to desolation as the anchors in her life were destroyed. “The Year of Magical Thinking” was dashed off in a year, while “Blue Nights” was worked and worked and agonized over. You can feel the different kinds of grief in the sinews of the text.

    • Crafty_Jellyfish5635@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I also read them back to back…while I was newly married and pregnant with my eldest daughter. I don’t know what the hell I was thinking.